MISSISSIPPI CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY

EIN 64-0797905 JACKSON, MS

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Revenue 2024: $745,026
Expenses 2024: $606,912

Program services were 32.3% of total expenses calculated — Part IX's program-services column over total expenses, both as filed.

As filed

Subsection: 03
NTEE code: B01
Classification: 1000
Street: 520 GEORGE ST

These codes are the IRS's own and are shown exactly as filed. What each one means is in the Business Master File documentation (opens in a new tab).

Mission and programs · 2024

Mission

TO ADVANCE THE IDEALS OF LIMITED GOVERNMENT, FREE MARKETS, AND STRONG FAMILIES BY PROVIDING GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, THE MEDIA, AND THE PUBLIC WITH INFORMATION AND PERSPECTIVE TO HELP THEM UNDERSTAND AND DEFEND LIBERTY.

Activities or mission (Part I)

TO ADVANCE THE IDEALS OF LIMITED GOVERNMENT, FREE MARKETS AND STRONG FAMILIES BY PROVIDING GOVERNMENT OFFICIALS, THE MEDIA AND THE PUBLIC WITH INFORMATION AND PERSPECTIVE IN ORDER TO ASSIST THEM IN UNDERSTANDING AND DEFENDING LIBERTY.

THE CENTER RESEARCHES AND STUDIES PUBLIC POLICY ISSUES AND DISPENSES THIS INFORMATION TO POLICY MAKERS, BUSINESS LEADERS, MEMBERS OF THE MEDIA AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC.

Expenses $154,651 · Revenue $8,200
THE CENTER'S PUBLIC INTEREST LEGAL DIVISION ADVISES AND REPRESENTS MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC, AT NO COST TO THE CLIENTS, IN MATTERS INVOLVING THE DEFENSE OF FEDERAL AND STATE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND CIVIL LIBERTIES.

Expenses $41,256

As filed on the 2024 return.

Officers and directors · 2024

As listed in Part VII of the 2024 return, in the order the filer printed them. Each return names its own; this is not a roster the organization keeps with us.

Douglas CarswellDOUGLAS CARSWELL

PRESIDENT /

Total calculated

$206,282

From this org

$178,380

From related orgs

$0

Other

$27,902

Hours/week

40

Schedule J breakdown matched by us

Base

$178,380

Bonus

not reported

Other

not reported

Deferred

$27,902

Nontaxable benefits

not reported

Filer's total

$206,282
Calvin WellsCALVIN WELLS

CHAIRMAN

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Hc Mac McGeheeHC MAC MCGEHEE

SECRETARY

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
Doug McDanielDOUG MCDANIEL

TREASURER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

1
James HerringJAMES HERRING

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Gloria WalkerGLORIA WALKER

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Alan WilsonALAN WILSON

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Arthur FinkelbergARTHUR FINKELBERG

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
John MarchettiJOHN MARCHETTI

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Ashley MeenaASHLEY MEENA

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Price JohnsonPRICE JOHNSON

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5
Thomas DunbarTHOMAS DUNBAR

BOARD MEMBER

Total calculated

$0

Hours/week

0.5

Compensation is as filed in Part VII: reportable pay from this organization and from related organizations, other compensation, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total. On a Form 990-EZ the columns are Part IV's instead, and on a Form 990-PF Part VIII's — compensation, contributions to benefit plans, and expense account — and the total sums those. A Schedule J breakdown is as filed: base pay, bonus, other, deferred compensation and nontaxable benefits from this organization, with any from related organizations beside each, and the filer's own total. It is shown with the Part VII listing of the same name on the same return. The form gives no key between the two, so that pairing is ours, and is marked matched by us. Earlier years are each on their own filing page.

Filings

2024

Revenue

$745,026

Expenses

$606,912

Contributions

$730,076

Grants paid

$0
2023

Revenue

$680,862

Expenses

$747,936

Contributions

$617,387

Grants paid

$0
2022

Revenue

$763,373

Expenses

$842,025

Contributions

$733,706

Grants paid

$0

Tax year	Revenue	Expenses	Contributions	Grants paid
2024	$745,026	$606,912	$730,076	$0
2023	$680,862	$747,936	$617,387	$0
2022	$763,373	$842,025	$733,706	$0

The four totals the IRS asks for on Part I of the Form 990, as filed. A dash means the figure was not present on the return — not that it was zero.

Other returns filed

2021 · 990

Revenue

$987,650

Expenses

$850,850

Assets (EOY)

$292,372
2020 · 990

Revenue

$925,133

Expenses

$884,845

Assets (EOY)

$267,155
2019 · 990

Revenue

$1,011,306

Expenses

$987,601

Assets (EOY)

$247,300
2018 · 990

Revenue

$688,637

Expenses

$766,618

Assets (EOY)

$263,978
2017 · 990

Revenue

$499,773

Expenses

$616,253

Assets (EOY)

$268,527
2016 · 990

Revenue

$655,820

Expenses

$733,270

Assets (EOY)

$288,983
2015 · 990

Revenue

$622,290

Expenses

$612,527

Assets (EOY)

$318,738
2014 · 990

Revenue

$581,876

Expenses

$611,461

Assets (EOY)

$343,785
2013 · 990

Revenue

$416,788

Expenses

$566,644

Assets (EOY)

$344,735
2012 · 990

Revenue

not reported

Expenses

$705,547

Assets (EOY)

$515,712

Tax year	Form	Revenue	Expenses	Assets (EOY)
2021	990	$987,650	$850,850	$292,372
2020	990	$925,133	$884,845	$267,155
2019	990	$1,011,306	$987,601	$247,300
2018	990	$688,637	$766,618	$263,978
2017	990	$499,773	$616,253	$268,527
2016	990	$655,820	$733,270	$288,983
2015	990	$622,290	$612,527	$318,738
2014	990	$581,876	$611,461	$343,785
2013	990	$416,788	$566,644	$344,735
2012	990	not reported	$705,547	$515,712

Nonprofiteer parses Forms 990, 990-EZ and 990-PF, in a window of recent tax years. These returns are recorded from the IRS e-file index, so their figures were extracted by that index rather than read from the return here — treat them as a different source from the filings above, not as more of the same record. A dash means the index carries no figure; Form 990-T listings carry none at all. Showing the 10 most recent; the API carries the rest.

Grants made

No itemized grants to organizations. Schedule I is filed only by organizations that granted more than $5,000 to a recipient, so most filers have none.

Grants received

CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MEMPHIS AND THE MID-SOUTH INC

$275,000

2024 CRIME
STATE POLICY NETWORK

$50,000

2022 GENERAL OPERATING
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI

$40,000

2023 GENERAL OPER SUPPORT
STATE POLICY NETWORK

$30,000

2024 GENERAL OPERATING
STATE POLICY NETWORK

$25,000

2023 GENERAL OPERATING
Yes Every Kid Inc

$25,000

2024 GENERAL OPERATING
RAYMOND JAMES CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT FUND

$22,511

2024 GENERAL SUPPORT
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MISSISSIPPI

$19,000

2024 GENERAL OPER SUPPORT
NETCHOICE

$15,000

2023 general support
FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND

$14,550

2024 For grant recipient's exempt purposes

The 10 largest by cash amount. The API serves every itemized grant.

Other IRS files

Auto-Revocation List

Not listed. The IRS publishes this list for organizations whose exemption was automatically revoked for failing to file for three consecutive years.

Publication 78

Listed as of 13 October 2026, under deductibility PC.

These are two separate IRS files on two separate schedules, shown as published and not reconciled with each other. Neither is a statement about whether a contribution is deductible today: 19,245 organizations appear in Publication 78 while the IRS's own revocation file lists them as currently revoked, more than half of those revoked before 2019. Absence from Publication 78 is evidence of nothing, and presence is not evidence either. Verify current status with the IRS before relying on it.

What this page reflects

The registration facts above come from the IRS Business Master File published 9 November 2026 and read 9 November 2026, for every organization at once. Returns through tax year 2024, the newest we have parsed for this organization.